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English Canadian Lit 1
Canadian Lit 1
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Undergraduate 1
02/27/2013

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Oliver Goldsmith
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The Rising Village
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Susanna Moodie
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Roughing It in the Bush
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The man who rose from nothing
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Alexander McLaughlan
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Riel
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Kate Simpson Hayes
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Quebec to Ontario
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Agnus Maule Machar
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Bliss Carmen
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A Vagabond Song
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Low tide on Grand Pre
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Bliss Carmen
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A windflower
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Bliss Carmen
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Charles GD Roberts
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Tantramar Revisited
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The pea-fields
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Charles GD Roberts
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The winter fields
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Charles GD Roberts
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The potato harvest
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Charles GD Roberts
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Duncan Campbell Scott
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THe onondaga madonna
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The forsaken
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DC Scott
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At gull lake: August 1810
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DC Scott
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NIght Hymns on Lake Nippigon
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DC Scott
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
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The Canoe
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The dark stag
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
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The hidden room
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
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E Pauline Johnson
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The Idlers
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The song my paddle sings
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EP Johnson
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Silhouette
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EP Johnson
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Sinful, imperfect human beings, stressing human nature, didacticism
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NeoClassicism
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God and Nature, the sublime, poet who channels god
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Romanticism
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Great Uncle published "The deserted village"
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Writes in heroic couplets
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Iambic pentameter, 10 syllable line, 5 stressed. Rhyme is consistent
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Heroic Couplet
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Best known emigration writer
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Susanna Moodie
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Sketch Genre promoted by? (2)
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Stephen Leacock and Susanna Moodie
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Life in the Clearings
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Susanna Moodie
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"Emotion recollected in tranquility"
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William Wordsworth
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Susanna Moodie is the foremother for who?
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Margaret Atwood
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Poem:"A-A-A... The man who rose from nothing". Anyone can take charge. Need someone to define Canada.
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The Man who rose from nothing
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Poem:Wild bird imagery of Riel (romantic) eventually captured, British view of Canada and the 'dis-harmonious' land. Antagonism with America (eagle imagery). Unsympathetic to Riel
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Riel
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Poem:Show respect to British but handled Riel the wrong way, Enjambment, Ambiguity in thoughts for Riel, Conquest of the British does not have to kill Riel
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Quebec to Ontario
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Poet felt left out of the Confederation Group and started to claim plagiarism of the Confederation poets.
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William Wilfred Campbell
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When the Confederation group began.
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1880
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Poet that uses Ballad Poetry
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Bliss Carmen
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Poetry that is usually quatrain and with a rhyme scheme of ABAB or AABB
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Ballad Poetry
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Personal Theory of what poetry should accomplish and what it should be for.
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Poetics
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Poet who was very resistant to free verse and stuck to Ballad poetry.
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Bliss Carmen
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Poem: Time theme, Time is like a river that flows, comes back to you in 'waves', Lyric 'I' in the poem to associate with the poet himself. Quintain ABABB
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Low Tide on Grand Pre
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Poem: Color of blood images, heart, hearing the color red, Line lengths are long, short, short, long. "Heart Beat" pattern. Ambiguous 'she' in the poem
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A Vagabond Song
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Figurehead of Canadian Confederation Poets
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Charles GD Roberts
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Published 'Orion and Other Poems'
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Charles GD Roberts
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Poem:"Well I remember it all", Canadian in cataloguing of the names, Time theme in past and future, national sense of place here. Borders and boundaries, and finally realizes change has touched the place. 'no change!" Change theme.
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Tantramar Revisited
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Poem: Anaphora (And), Enclosure image, Sonnet form (more closed), Contrast of big picture "here and there", foreground and background, Momentum in the poem with the anaphora, in Sestet shows desire for something unattainable
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The Pea-Fields
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Octave, Volta, Sestet
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Sonnet form
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Rhyme scheme of ABBA in the _______ of the sonnet form
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Octave
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Presents a struggle and resolution in this poetic form
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Sonnet form
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Advocate of assimilation, very controversial to first nations poet
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Duncan Campbell Scott
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Poet who often uses the Petrarchan Sonnet
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Duncan Campbell Scott
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Poem: Dove reference to bible, stanza: 3 lines and final 1 brief line, cycle and circle imagery, very loud time and sing song time (Christmas time), end of a cycle and end of a century, Juxtaposition of audible and visual symbols. Takes place at night.
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Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon
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Poem: Petrarchan Sonnet with no conclusion, Image based poem of native woman and child, Sestet focusing on the child, Is the child trying to fight the culture change or is he distraught by it? ABBA
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Onondaga Madonna
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"A good deal is being said as to whether a Canadian literature exists. Of course it does not."
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Archibald Lampman
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Concerned with the rights of people, feminism, and industrialism. More in tune with nature and shows a detest for the "city". Feels more at home in nature.
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Archibald Lampman
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Poem: 8 line stanzes of ABAB, very hot taking place at noon, motionless theme, finding time to recall memories, Paradox of vision acknowledging haze as true vision, water imagery (soaks, draining), Water as a symbol of times movement, Water is life giving,
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Heat
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Poem: Modified petrarchan sonnet, Scythe symbolic of death, fear of time's passage, carpe diem, Gold still touching the village in the end, Romantic portrayal of nature. Many Casesuras.
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A sunset on the Lower St. Lawrence
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Poem: Symbols of hell, poet and city feel mechanical, time is personified, end oc century is transition, coherent audible pattern like musical - predictable (lift/fall, rest/beat)
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The city of the end of things
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Poem: Conceit, stag, doe, and skillful hunter. Yonic symbolism and pathos. White vs. red as yonic symbolism. "lily", Doe symbolizes chaste wife. Pathos of doe dying and stag turning around, no moral or ethical struggle, no ambiguity
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The dark stag
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An appeal to the emotions of the reader
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Pathos
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Poem: Very sexual poem, images of bondage, bedding a woman, no particular rhyme scheme or stanza length, lily again in poem as yonic symbolism, female voice as a lifeless object, communicating fear,
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The Canoe
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Poem: Feminist identity poem, revolves around chastity, Crawford locates this in her heart, heart imagery with rooms, death suggestive of sex in Renaissance writing
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The Hidden Room
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Foremother for PK Page who writes of love in her Head.
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
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This persons poem was edited from The Canoe to Said the Canoe in order to erase any scandalous erotic imagery
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
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Regarded as mohawk by english law but not by mohawk law, part of New woman movement, not included in NCL, Plays into vanishing race myth
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E. Pauline Johnson
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This person created the New Canadian Library (NCL) and did not include EP Johnson
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Malcolm Ross
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Poem: Sexual subtext of wooing with the sails, give up pursuit and take the paddle, phallic imagery, gaining control and power with the paddle, female speaker of mother nature, paddler vs. nature (same sex or hetero?), metaphor of sexual pursuit.
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The Song my Paddle Sings
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Poem: 6 line stanzas, "Canadian July", passive man, aggressive female who objectifies the male, carpe diem, unsatisfied end of the poem in which orgasm has passed, no wind or afterglow, death of an orgasm over an hour ago
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"The Idlers"
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Poem: Vanishing race myth, ONe dimensional chief, Never coming buffalo herd, Heroic survivor of culture, is this superficial trope or shows the bareness of the prairies?
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"Silhouette"
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Style of writing that is a tactic in good literature
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Ambiguity
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Style of writing that is a consequence of marginalization
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